Artist
SUZANNE HAZLETT
SUZANNE HAZLETT is a mixed media artist drawn to the nuances of texture, color, and light in nature and urban environments. She transforms those influences into her paintings by layering ground marble, wax, pigments, and glazes of oil paints onto wood panels. The final interaction of hue and substance yields visually atmospheric and physically tactile work.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My newest work has adopted a sense of wavelike dimensions. I am questioning the rigid, right-angled parameters limiting the visual narrative I want to create. Instead of coloring within the lines of the expected geometric squares and rectangles of panels and canvases, I build the substrates in my new work. I sketch curvilinear designs on paper and transfer those shapes to wood construction. I form the panels and then follow with my layering protocol of adding and subtracting what may be twenty or thirty strata of color and material. Molten and cold waxes, dry pigments, and oil paints help me express the sought-after character and composition. While I work, I intentionally rearrange the pieces and witness the observable conversations between them. The nature of these designs enables the collector to self-curate and engage in changing the visual dialogue in their own spaces.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Bachelor of Arts, Biology + Art History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Master of Business Administration, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gail Severn Gallery, Her Story Group Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
2017 Gail Severn Gallery, Universal Solvent Solo Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
2016 Gail Severn Gallery, Southern Exposure Solo Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
2015 Gail Severn Gallery, Material Possibilities Solo Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
2015 Americans for the Arts Juried Collection, Sun Valley, ID – Juror: Roger Rowley, Director Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
2014 Wood River Valley Artists Juried Collection, Ketchum, ID – Juror: Kirsten Furlong, Gallery Director, Blue Galleries, Boise State University
2014 AUROBORA, Group Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
2013 Wood River Fine Arts, Group Exhibition, Ketchum, ID
ART FAIRS
2017 Art Market San Francisco, Gail Severn Gallery, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 Seattle Art Fair, Gail Severn Gallery, Seattle, WA
FILM + VISUAL MEDIA
2018 Saturday’s Child, Reportage Documentary produced by Chuck Rumpf, Rocky Mountain School of Photography
2015 Material Possibilities, Video produced by Concierge Q
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 Western Home Journal, “A View of the Art Market” Sun Valley Winter Issue
2021 Western Home Journal, “A View of the Art Market” Sun Valley Summer Issue
2021 Western Home Journal, “Breaking Ground” Sun Valley Summer Issue
2020 Western Home Journal, “A View of the Art Market” Sun Valley Winter Issue
2017 SVPN, “From Industrial Shop to Inspiring Studio – Suzanne Hazlett Transforms Her Artist Space” August Issue
2017 Eye On Sun Valley, “Universal Solvent Offers Painterly Study of Water” February 16, 2017
2017 SVPN, “Universal Solvent: Suzanne Hazlett at Gail Severn Gallery” February Issue
2016 SVPN, “Celebrating the Feminine Spirit at Gail Severn Gallery” September Issue
2016 SVPN, “Creative Connections” August Issue
2016 SVPN, “Focal Point: The Element In A Photograph That Draws The Viewer In” May Issue
2016 SVPN, “Two Artists’ Natural Habitat” March Issue
2015 SVPN, “Transforming Communities: Americans For The Arts Leadership Roundtable Meets In Sun Valley” August Issue
2015 SVPN, “The History of the Wood River Valley Studio Tour” August Issue
2015 Idaho Mountain Express, “A Studio Of One’s Own” August 1, 2014
2015 Eye on Sun Valley, “Turning Formulas Into Art: Local Artist Gets Solo Exhibition” March 11, 2015
2014 SVPN, “Inside the Artist’s Studio – Suzanne Hazlett” August Issue
2014 Sun Valley Magazine, “The Leading Edge: Where Art and Technology Intersect” November Issue
2014 The Weekly Sun, “Art Gurus Talk Tech at the Americans for the Arts Conference in Sun Valley” July 2, 2014
2013 Sun Valley Magazine, “Wood River Valley Studio Tour Preview” July Issue